you took me out
of it
where I was
with water and wire
with loving and laughter
-dire
---no more
circumstance,
beautiful-----
the way you enhanced
my life with colours
with erasing smoke and somali strangers
speaking a tongue unknown
to know-----
it exists out there still
there, with star-crossed plans
there singing terribly in grams
there in namak mandi
the salt market
you took it out of me
you took me out
of it
and I love you so much
for taking it out of me
-ten million billion times-
